1. Place carrots, onions, celery, and meat substitute in crock pot.
2. Add salt, pepper and broth. Cover, set on low, and cook 6 hours (or until you get home from work.)
3. For dumplings, mix biscuit mix with milk.
4. About 1 hour before you're ready to eat, drop spoonfulls of dumpling dough into crockpot and turn crockpot on high. Cook 1 hour.

SO HOW'D IT GO?

Oh my god, what a treat! I didn't really follow the recipe, but I did use this to create a vegan chick'n and dumping dish... divinnnnne. I accidentally made it too salty, but then my meat-loving dad and brother actually loved it, too.

My mom is from Arkansas, but we live in Philly, so she was always limited to reminiscing about good southern cuisine: there's no southern restaurants around here, and she never cooked a lot of southern food due to a) our health, and b) lack of skill with cooking dumplings and pie crusts from scratch. I was sooooo excited to hear that biscuit dough can be used for the dumplings! I can't wait to make this for my mom.